It's important to know that Snow Mane is currently one of the weaker Cold Beasts known in Redwood Ridge, perhaps even the weakest to some extent.
Yet even the weakest is stronger than the mightiest of Great Xia.
Although Xia Hong didn't use weapons in the recent contest, just from those few exchanges, he could already sense that even with a blade, he couldn't confidently say he would win in a solo fight.
After all, the Snow Mane before him was made from a wooden mannequin and wouldn't injure him; fighting in the wild compared to within a valley was different; and what made Snow Mane the most dangerous wasn't just its strength but its cunning nature.
Despite being awed by the Cold Beast's strength, when Xia Hong looked at the Snow Mane manifested from the wooden mannequin again, a fiery eagerness rose in his eyes.
